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Thanks to your advocacy efforts on our behalf, we're happy to report that the recently passed Omnibus Spending Bill includes a very small increase in funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities! While our work is not over with regards to the upcoming 2018 budget to be passed in the fall, the Omnibus Spending Bill represents an endorsement of the important work that the humanities do for our communities. These funds will continue to support our work of providing free access to authoritative content about Virginia's history and culture.

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"No Stamp Act" Teapot

This creamware teapot commemorates the March 1766 repeal of the Stamp Act. The teapot was made in Staffordshire, England, probably between 1766 and 1770. English manufacturers created such export ceramics as a way to regain colonial customers who had been boycotting their products. Passed by Parliament in March 1765, the Stamp Act taxed American colonists for all commercial and legal papers, including newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards. The colonists, outraged at being taxed without their consent, refused to pay the tax and instead boycotted English goods. The Stamp Act was repealed less than five months after it had gone into effect.